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Chimpanzees are not proto-hominins and early human mothers may not have foraged alone

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 February 2005

Agustín Fuentes
Agustín Fuentes*
Affiliation:
Department of Anthropology, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN, 46556
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Abstract:

Modeling the evolution of human behavior, including language, is a complex but important undertaking. The over-reliance on chimpanzees as models to assess basal hominin patterns and the implicit assumption that hominin mothers did not have significant assistance in caring for young weaken this model for the emergence of language from mother-infant vocal interactions.

Type
Open Peer Commentary
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 27 , Issue 4 , August 2004 , pp. 513
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2004

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